I was looking for the first 3 of these and figured I might as well put them up on Storify for reference.
Storified by Dara Lind · Sat, Jul 27 2013 22:29:05
Nats fandom is showing me that there's a U-shaped correlation btwn "Beltway"-ness and affinity for DC. Those with affinity are either+
+ppl who recognize difference btwn DC as it exists and DC-as-metonymy-for-power, or Carville/Russert/Krauthammer types who+
+manage to live full-time in the metonymic DC that to the rest of us is just a rhetorical device. Everyone in the middle wants to get out.
@wawilsoniv Yeah, most people in our generation who haven't thrown themselves hard into the work of gentrification are.
@wawilsoniv And let me be clear: the gentrifiers are on the non-Russert arm. It may be a less-awful sort of affinity, but still problematic.
@nbeaudrot Here's the problem: the commitment to the issue that makes me hate DC is the same commitment that won't let me be anywhere else
Activists annoy me. Villagers annoy me. Hill People annoy me. Still can't imagine myself anywhere but DC.
